Ted Deutsch postcard

Copyright Holder: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Ted Deutsch (1927-2008) was born Josef Tibor Deutsch in Mukačevo, Czechoslovakia (now Mukachevo, Ukraine) on September 21, 1927 or 1929 to Armin (b. 1989) and Hedwig Deutsch (b. 1908). He and his parents and brother George (Gyuri) were deported from Sátoraljaújhely in 1944. His father and brother were killed at Auschwitz. His mother was transferred to Płaszów and then to the Markkleeberg subcamp of Buchenwald. She was liberated at Bergen-Belsen. Ted initially claimed to have been liberated at Bergen-Belsen to improve his chances of emigrating, but he later said that he was at Auschwitz. He lived in the displaced persons camps at Pocking and Fritzlar and then immigrated to the United States aboard the MS General Muir in July 1949. His mother had immigrated to Canada aboard the Marine Shark in January 1949. The postcard was written by an officially-appointed letter writer, as dictated by Ted Deutsch and his brother when they were interned in Birkenau concentration camp. The postcard was addressed to their grandfather in Budapest, Hungary. The coded message let him know that his grandsons were alive, but that they had been separated from their parents. The messag reads, "Dear Grandfather, We are healthy and we will be working. Please, we would like to have the address of Hedi and Armin to write. Many kisses."